In the final part of our series, Dr. Vanessa Edwards discusses what steps healthcare practitioners and others on the frontline should be doing to stay safe during the pandemic.
The video starts with a title screen. A maroon and orange gradient aura shifts in the upper right corner of the screen as words appear. They read “Dr. Vanessa Edwards answers questions about COVID-19 and gives some practical advice” and appear over a short resume blurb. The blurb reads: “Dr. Vanessa Edwards, N.D., Water of Life Natropathic Healthcare.”
After a few seconds the words pan up the screen as a question fades in from below. The question reads: “What advice do you have for practitioners to stay healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic?”
Dr. Vanessa Edwards:
So during this crisis, it is important that we as practitioners make every effort to stay healthy as possible. Our patients really need us. Of course, we must wear the proper PPE when coming in contact with the patients, as well as when we're making those essential runs, like going to the grocery store. What I want to discuss, some steps to take beyond using the PPE and staying healthy.
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Dr. Vanessa Edwards:
So again, we have to get back to the basics. We must get proper sleep so that we can make the optimal melatonin levels. We have to stay hydrated, drinking half your body weight in ounces of water a day, and making sure that you choose wise food choices, foods that are going to build the immune system and not foods that are going to tear down the immune system. And we know what those are. We know the vegetables, we know the fruits that are going to build up our immune system. We know that refined sugar is going to cause issues for our immune system. We know that sugar can lower your immune system for half a day. So these are the things that we know, but these are the things that we need to implement. It's so easy to just pick up some food to just eat because you're stress eating. So the goal is really not to even have those things in the house. Okay?
If you're doing tele-health, another suggestion I have is that you must take breaks. So right now I'm doing tele-health, and sometimes I find myself actually working more at home than I actually did in the office. And so, I find myself skipping meals because I'm working from home. So I had to put myself on a schedule so that I can have lunch, breakfast, lunch, and dinner at decent times. I'm making sure that I'm not eating anything after 8:00 PM and I'm trying not to snack in between meals. So again, we must get back to the basics of health so that we can keep our bodies healthy. So some supplements that I take on a regular basis is vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, my probiotics to keep the microbiome nice and healthy. I also will have the spore probiotics every now and then, like bacillus coagulans, to help and as well as taking melatonin.
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